Bracket signal-post.



No. 632,4l3. l Fatima' sept- 5 |899.

J. S. HOBSON.

BRACKET SIGNAL POST.

(Appucncimmed Apr. 21, 1399.)

(No Model.)

mlm/@MMIII f against each other and which are secured to- UNiTnD STATESJOHN SURTEES HOBSON,

PATENT OFFICE.-

OF TOPEKA, KANSAS.

BRACKET SIG NAL-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,413, datedSeptember 5, 1899. Application iiled April 2l, 1899. Serial No. 713,856.(No model.)

To all whom it muy concern.

Beit known that I, JOHN SURTEES HoBsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bracket Signal-Posts, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to that class of mechanisms which are used forsupporting or sustaining railway-signals in position, and particularlyto the details of construction and arrangement of the post and bracket,all of which will more fully hereinafter appear.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, economical, andefficient bracket signal-post; and the invention consists inthefeatures, combinations, and details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a vertical elevation of asignal-post constructed in accordance with my improvements; Fig. 2, anenlarged plan view, partly in section, taken on line 2 of Fig. 1,looking in the direction of the arrow 5 and Fig. 3, an enlargedcross-sectional view taken on line 3 of Fig. l.

In the art to which this invention relates it is well known that bracketsignal-posts as at present constructed are made of wood or metal partsarranged in the form of latticework and that such posts are expensive tomake in that it takes considerable labor to construct the same, and forthe further reason that the material used is all new commercial iron.The principal object of my invention, therefore, is to provide a simple,economical, and ecient post, which may be made of discarded materialsuchas old rails, channel-beams, and angle-irons which have been used atleast once in some form of construction, such as a car-truck or otherportions of a car, or which has been practically worn out in service asa part of the railroad-bed.

In constructing a signal-post in accordance with my improvements I makethe post proper of four railway-rails A, A', A2, and A3, arranged withtheir head portions abutting gether by means of encircling bands B, towhich the base portions of the rails are preferably riveted, as shownparticularly in Fig. 5o

3. The lower portion of the post is secured to a base-plate C by meansof the angles c, which are riveted to the base-plate and to the baseportions of the rails.

To form the upper portion of the bracket signal-post, two channel-beamsDand D' are provided, which have their webs arranged in vertical planesadjacent to each other and their ilanges extending outwardly in ahorizontal plane and which are secured to the castings E E at each endthereof upon which the signal may be sustained. The central portions ofthe channel-beams are separated so that they may be secured to therailway-rails by means of the short sections d and d of channel-iron.Stay-rods G G are provided and secured to plates g on the post, fromwhich they extend upwardly at about an angle of forty-five degrees tothe channel-beams, to which they are secured at or near their endportions.

From the foregoing description of construction and arrangement it willbe seen that I have provided a bracket signal-post which may be made ofdiscarded railway-rails, channel-irons, angle-irons, dto., and securedtogether in such a manner as to be very simple of construction andefficient in operation.

A bracket signal-post comprising four rail` way-rails having their headportions extending inwardly and secured together by encircling bandswhich are riveted to the base portions of the rails, and abracket properformed of two channel-beams having their flanges extending outwardly andin horizontal planes, and the web portions on the inside toward eachother arranged in vertical planes and secured to the upper portions ofthe railwayrails, substantially as described.

JOHN SURTEES HOBSON.

Witnesses:

FRITZ KNABJOHANN, J. A. WILLIAMS.

